Candelabrum.



PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.

0. H. VAN GUELPEN.

GANDELABRUM.

urLmAnoN FILED 1713.271907.

W/TNESSES wmf@ ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO HEINRICH VAN GUELPEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BENZIGERBROTHERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CANDELABRUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 27, 1907. Serial No. 364,779.

Patented July 9, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rro HEINRICH VAN GUELPEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, inthe county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Candelabra, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is .to provide a very simple and economicconstruction of Candelabra, wherein the arms can be quickly andconveniently placed in position and securely locked in a simple manner,and wherein the arms adapted to the standard ofthe device can be made toextend therefrom at different angles and yet be rigidly held inposition, and wherein the standard may be lengthened or shortened atwill.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures. Figure 1 is a sectional sideelevation of the device; Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof, the cap of thestandard being removed; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through theupper portion of the device, drawn upon an enlarged scale.

The standard A of the device consists of a tubular base member 10 and anupper entering member 11, which entering member is telescopically heldin the base member 10 by means of a set screw 12 carried Fby the latteror by equivalent means. At the upper end of the upper or entering member11 of the standard, a cup-shaped socket -13 is secured or is integrallyformed. This cup-shaped-socket 13 is provided with an upwardly extendingmarginal flange 14 and in said iiange a series of recesses 15 isproduced, the recesses being preferably V-shaped, as is shown. Theserecesses correspond in number to the number of arms B employed, eachrecess being adapted to receive an arm. These arms will be hereinaftermore particularly de- I scribed. The said cup-shaped socket 13 is alsoprovided with a series of apertures 16 extending through preferably fromtop to bottom, but not vnecessarily extending through the bottom of thesocket. The apertures 16 are located one opposite each oi the recesses14, and a screw 18 is secured to the upper central portion o the uppermember 11 of the standard A being preferably threaded at each side of alimiting collar 17, and the upper portion of this screw 18 extends somedistance upward beyond the cup-shaped socket 13, as is best shown inFig. 3.

A cap 19 in the form of a block, for example, is used in connection withand is located above the cup-shaped cup-shaped socket 13 that the capcovers.

Each arm B at its inner end is provided with a pin 23 fixed thereto andthese pins extend through corresponding apertures 16 and 22 in thecup-shaped socket 13 and its cap19, as is illustrated in Fig. 3. Thelower edges of the said arms B,particularly at their inner ends, aremore or less rendered V-shaped in cross section so as to fit in therecesses 14 in the socket member 13 of the standard A and after the pinsof the various arms have been entered into the apertures 16 and 22 thenut 21 is screwed rmly to place and the arms are thereby firmly held inposition. These arms B may be straight or they may be given a downwardory an upward inclination. A straight arm is shown to the left in Fig.1, and a downwardly inclined arm is shown to the right in the sameligure. When the arms B are downwardly inclined their inner end portionsare straight and adjacent to the said straight inner end portion arecess 24 is made in the under face of an arm, as is shown particularlyin Figs. 1 and 3, and that portion of the under edge or face thatextends from the socket member 13 is rendered V-shaped in cross sectionor is beveled, as is shown at 24 of said Fig. 3 so as to lit into therecesses 15 in the socket member 13 of the standard.

It Will be observed that the arms are interchangeable and that a numberof sets of arms of different shapes may accompany each standard A, andthat any particular set of arms B may be quickly and conveniently placedin position on the standard. Each arm B is provided with any desirednumber of the customary candle-holders 25.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent,-

l. In a Candelabra, a standard, an upper socket member therefor havingmarginal recesses, arms having their inner ends fitted to and resting insaid recesses, a clamping cap engaging the upper faces of the arms andcooperating with the socket to clamp the arms in place, and a fasteningdevice for the clamping cap.

2. In a Candelabra, a standar-d, a socket member therefor, havingmarginal. recesses and provided with apertures opposite said recesses,arms having pins at their inner ends extendingr above and below theirinner ends, the said pins being adapted to enter the said recesses inthe socket cap, the arms being adapted to the said recesses, a clampingcap provided with apertures to receive the upper portions of the pins,and a locking means for the said cap.

3. In a Candelabra, the combination with a telescopic standard, acup-shaped socket at the upper end of the upper member ofthe standard,Which socket member is provided with a series of recesses, the saidsocket member be ing also provided with a series of apertures locatedopposite the said recesses, of arms, candle-sticks carried by the saidarms, the arms at their lower edges being adapted to the contour of therecesses in the said socket member,'pius at the inner ends ot' the saidarms extending upward and downward therefrom, the downwardlyextending-portions ot' the pins being adapted to enter the recesses inthe said socket member, a cap provided with recesses to receive theupwardly extending portions of the said pins, and means for tightlyclamping the said cap upon the said arms.

4. In a Candelabra, the combination with a telescopic standard, meansfor holding the members of the standardv in adjusted position, a socketmember at the upper end of the said standard provided with a series ofmarginal V- shaped recesses and apertures adjacent to the said recesses,and the inner ends of which are entered in the said socket member, thelower edges of the said arms at their inner portions being;lcorrespondingly shaped to the recesses in the socket member, saidportions of said arms being adapted to enter said recesses, of pinslocated at the inner ends of the said arms extending above and belowthem, the lower portions of the pins being adapted to enter theapertures in the said socket member, a screw extending up from thecentral portion of the said socket member, a cap through which the saidscrew passes, which. cap is provided with apertures to receive theupwardly extending portions of said pins, and a nut located at the upperend of the said screw in engagement with the upper portion of said cap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.Y

OTTO HEINRICH VAN GUELPEN.

Witnesses:

Jol-1N T. FINN, OTTO VINCEN'I` LEIBLEIN.

